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Wed, 12 Sep 2007
Fairport Harbor on a stormy day
The evening of September 11 we had some dramatic skies, as strong winds from the west were bringing in a storm. I went out to Fairport Harbor (map) to see if I could get some nice photos. By the time I arrived the sun had been eclipsed by fast moving clouds. The pics below show the view to the west and to the north:
Fairport Harbor has two lighthouses. The first lighthouse was built on the hill in 1825 and rebuilt in 1871. It was decomissioned in 1925, and is now a museum. The 1925 replacement was built on the breakwall and is still operating.
Usually the museum is closed in the evenings, but there was some kind of private party scheduled for later that evening, so they stayed open late and I was able to go up the tower. The whole lighthouse was whistling and moaning as the wind blew around it. Most of the photos that I took from the top were hopelessly blurry because of the wind, even though I was crouched down and braced the camera against the railing. (I had a tripod with me, but if I had tried to set it up it would have been blown away.) The best of the batch are below.
The stairs inside the tower are cast iron.
Another shot of the breakwall and new lighthouse, from the ground. In good weather, people fish from the wall. Not today.
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